Putting I Between Art And Facts
The vice maps below were created by Levee historian Bryan Lloyd. They depict all of the bars, dives, brothels, saloons, pool halls and gambling houses in the Levee and Little Cheyenne Districts of Chicago between 1870 and 1923.
Some of my favorite place names include:
I love this project put together by Rollertrain. “One Year’s Addictions” is a collection of one entire years worth of “empty cigarette boxes, tubes of chapstick, beer bottle tops, empty bottles of lubricant, empty prescription pill bottles and broken ipod headphones.” I shutter to think of what my collection of addictions would look like – it would be very different, no doubt, but no less sinister.
Photo courtesy of Libby Lynn.
Harley Davidson + Yuppies + Weekend Warriors = They just don’t party like they used to, ya know (nsfw).
Joe Mathlete of The Mathletes (sort of like a nerdy low-fi Postal Service) takes the time to Explain Today’s Marmaduke
If your as tired as I am of corporate computer answering services, use this database to find out how to get a human.